RAFAH NOW, most of the injured are kids: photo via Falastinian on twitter, 20 August 2014

Initial pix of killed & injured after airstrikes hitting three residential houses in Rafah at the same time: photo via Mohammed M Abu Sadaa on twitter, 20 August 2014

Children of Gaza prepare for more violence: photo via Middle East Eye / Joe Catron on twitter, 20 August 2014I don't know how many children must die before Israel is taken to war
crimes court: photo via Sabreena-Gaza on twitter, 20 August 2014

Allouh family martyrs in Deir Albalah... martyred after the bombing of their home without any warning...: photo via Said Shoaib on twitter, 20 August 2014

Official: 22 Palestinian murdered by Israeli strikes since truce collapsed: photo by Anonymous Palestine on twitter, 20 August 2014Not how life should turn out for a baby. Children are suffering the most in Gaza Under Attack: photo via Dr Bassel Abuwarda on twitter, 20 August 2014

Heartbreaking: Israel violates ceasefire and terrorizes people and kills an infant: photo via Joe Catron on twitter, 19 August 2014

What REALLY happens in Gaza: image via AKAoptimistic on twitter, 20 August 2014

St. Louis Police Not All That Interested In How People End Up Shot, Apparently: photo via R Saddler on twitter, 20 August 2014

Records show Ferguson police made more than DOUBLE the arrests they reported: photo via The Root on twitter, 20 August 2014

At least 47 people were arrested on the 10th night of Ferguson
protests: photo via New York Daily News on twitter, 20 August 2014Arrested for being out at night without Free Papers: photo via zellie on twitter, 20 August 2014

Officer
just held a gun up and threatened to shoot me as I was walking to the
distraction: photo via {Young}ist on twitter, 20 August 2014

Ferguson: photo via Annie Shields on twitter, 20 August 2014

Ferguson: photo by Claire Ward / Vice News, 20 August 2014

This little boy watched his home
being demolished by Israel. This is why we Block the Boat: photo via 14
Friends Palestine, 20 August 2014

Just walked back to main entrance from side entrance. Crowd is still
going strong!: photo via Not Frantz Fanon on twitter, 19 August 2014

Israeli ship is blocked from unloading in Oakland for four straight days: photo via ISM Palestine on twitter, 20 August 2014

Around 50 picketers at Berth 22 (1599 Maritime) to Block The Boat one more time: photo via Kumars Salehi, 20 August 2014

Oakland police intervening to try and open our picket line at Block the
Boat. We are resolved to continue resisting: photo via Todd Zimmer, 20
August 2014

A demonstrator throws back a
tear gas container after tactical officers worked to break up a group of
bystanders on Chambers Road near West Florissant on Wednesday: photo by Robert Cohen / MCT / ZUMA Wire, 15 August 2014

6 comments:

There is a site I came across named 'Humanize Palestine'. It shows those killed as you might find them in any other place not at war. So many are so young. . . from new-borne to early '30s. The particulars beneath the photos underscore the extent to which this war is destroying entire generations.

Tom, the resemblance between the forces occupying Ferguson and Gaza has a very real connection, as it turns out. So “spreads the dismal shade.”

“Under the cover of counterterrorism training, nearly every major police agency in the United States has traveled to Israel for lessons in occupation enforcement, a phenomenon that journalist Max Blumenthal dubbed “the Israelification of America’s security apparatus.” Israeli forces and US police departments are so entrenched that the New York City Police Department (NYPD) has opened a branch in Tel Aviv.” Found here: http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/israel-trained-police-occupy-missouri-after-killing-black-youth

The former longtime Seattle police chief, Norm Stamper, has admitted that he was entirely wrong in his draconian approach to policing the 1999 WTO riots.

I heard him interviewed a few days ago. He explained that a fear of young black men is instilled in police in the early days of police academy training. "You learn that this is a dangerous line of work... you learn where the danger is probably going to be coming from..."